Autodesk CEO now completly loses grip on reality

[samuel_bubat]

http://www.3dcadtips.com/will-autode...e-used-online/

[lukx]

CONTROL, CONTROL, CONTROL ... All this world is about...

[trick]

Well....let's HURRY with VRay for Modo and VRay for FormZ !!!

[Morbid Angel]

I know for a fact that this is not going to be possible. Not that its not possible to implement, of course it is. However quite a few studios have severe limitations when it comes to internet. That is they have no internet access what so ever due to the sensitivity of work they are doing and its not a matter of creating a specific access, the client just simply says you must have no internet in order to get the work.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

i am sure if this will happen, Max might look like OFFICE including its totally non intuitive ribbon

[super gnu]

why is it when software companies get -really- big (im looking at you microsoft and autodesk) they seem absolutely, utterly incapable of going in the direction their users want? too many users pulling in different directions? too many shareholders wanting new "revenue streams?"

i guess it means no giant stays at the top forever..

[Pixelcon]

The thing that's started really getting me frustrated is Autodesk's behaviour in regards the buying up the competition and in a lot of cases stopping development of the purchased technology all together. It's so damaging to do this sort of thing and it's stifling innovation.

Ecotect is a great example. They've taken the technology and integrated it into visari...but we don't want visari...we wan't a hyperthreaded working version of ecotect... Like we have if Autodesk hadn't bought out the developer...

It's sad to have lost so much respect for Autodesk over the last two to three years (for me at least).

[lukx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ6Ee...feature=relmfu

[trixian]

I have come to believe that the biggest problems seem to appear when companies grow past a certain size, the decision makers get replaces, or offset. Usually smaller companies are led by people with some sort of background and knowledge of the products being made\ services offered, and also tend to be slightly more "rooted to the ground", but when bought up by some larger entity, or just slowly growing over time, a certain type of people are placed in key positions. These people are not really compatible with normal people, and their decisions and strategies are often wildly out of sync with the rest of us.
My 2 cents.

[RE:FORM_STUDIOS]

Funny thing! I looked up the man himself on LinkedIn and asked for an invite, with the following message.

Dear Mr Bass,

I was sorry to read from an interview you recently gave that you think the future of all Autodesk products is online. Suffice to say I think this approach would be commercial suicide. If you are interested to hear more please connect so I can respond in more detail.

Amazingly, the CEO of Autodesk replied! (well at least his PA might have)

Message :
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Thanks for your message. Not everything online but lots of it will move there as it'sa more appropriate technology platform for many activities. And when I say online you have to add in things like private clouds
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I can't think of anything I want online with 3dsmax at the moment. If having the helpfile online annoys most of us, then imagine the frustration with other things going onto the cloud!

So, any suggestions for responses I can compile into a reasoned response to the big man whilst I have his ear?

[Neilg]

Whip up something about company online restrictions, like in dimitrys post. mention knowing people who work in those offices and what theyre expected to do.

[glorybound]

when you go public you have investors to look out for, so I am sure, it's their best interest driving decisions.

[Sawyer]

The other thing with most of these software companies is how do they remain relevant. I think most companies could use Autocad 2000 still today and it would be fine. Max 7 would still get the job done. Who needs to upgrade once a software hits maturity its really done. Adesk (and any software creator) has to recreate itself as a content provider not just a software maker otherwise it dies. Think about what has happened over the last 10 years with all the annual subscriptions. I cant even install my old software anymore when I try to I get an error saying the software has expired. I wouldnt be surprised if with this projected move to cloud computing there is a new model in place to charge for rendering farm work. Who would doubt that there will be a new feature limiting functionality if not rendered on Adesks Cloud Render Farm for a fee.

[Morne]

maybe he meant with private clouds, you will have your own cloud on the LAN and you would need super duper servers locally to make your own private cloud. Sounds like more licenses because you will need it for your own internal cloud. Then maybe your private cloud could connect with their public cloud and you will need a license for that, and so on and so on

Who knows

[Nicinus]

This is of course not in proportion to a huge application like Max, but I was thinking the other day how many apps on my iPhone that really has lost their purpose as downloadable executable programs. About 95% of what they do they need to be connected to internet for, and there is an endless stream of updates of these really more or less internet launch apps, so perhaps it would make more sense to have them completely online from the beginning. If internet ever gets as fast as local storage there would be no reason not to, so the question is where the threshold is. That it would happen in two, three years is just silly.